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"When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."

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"The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot."
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